(n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
(v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
(n.) Backgammon.
(n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
(v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
(v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other rowers in the Arctic crew were Billy Gammon, 37, from Cornwall; Rob Sleep, 38, and British army officer Captain David Mans, 28, both from Hampshire.
(2) Six products purchased from Sainsbury’s stores were found to contain the superbug – five Danish gammon steak and one gammon joint – while an Asda Danish unsmoked gammon steak, a Co-operative Danish unsmoked back bacon pack and a Tesco Irish unsmoked gammon steak were also contaminated with CC398.
(3) People were warned not to wade or drive into floodwater after the death of a man, namedas Jonathan Gammon, 52, of Teddington, south-west London, whose car was swept downstream at a ford on the Berkshire-Hampshire border on Monday.
(4) Katharine Gammon is a journalist based in Santa Monica, writing about innovation, science and technology.
(5) Mike Coupe, commercial director at Sainsbury, sees a trend towards more unconventional centrepieces – from three-bird roasts to duck, goose, gammon and rib of beef.
(6) Our investigation is focused on establishing the events leading up to Mr Gammon's death and we will be preparing a file for the coroner."
(7) Of the 100 packets of pork chops, bacon and gammon tested by the Guardian, nine – eight Danish and one Irish – were found to have been infected with CC398.
(8) In this article, Guy Gammon, Eli Sercarz and Gilles Benichou speculate on which T cells may escape tolerance induction and discuss how these cells could subsequently be involved in autoimmunity.
(9) A team of 12 staff spent 24 hours perfecting their creation, using enormous pork pies for wheels, black pudding for handlebars, chipolatas for the chain and a gammon joint for the saddle.
(10) This is evident not only in the sections regarding Jahilia but in a scene of comical intent in which Farishta visits the Taj Mahal hotel in Bombay after a near-fatal illness in order to stuff his mouth with all sorts of pork products, including "the gammon steaks of unbelief and the pig's trotters of secularism".
(11) Mr Gammon was trapped in his car as it attempted to cross a ford on Monday morning.
(12) We've developed a really good chutney made with fresh pineapple and when you put it with gammon it's bloody great.
(13) Ageing prison population graphic Several prisoners, who are acting as carers for the frailer, older inmates, collect and serve them their supper (gammon and pineapple) first, before returning to collect their own.
(14) Moor Sands has a small off-shore rock stack to swim out to and you can also seek out sandy Elender Cove, nestled in the corner of Gammon Head, half a mile to the east.
(15) He appears on ESPN with Peter Gammons to tell the tale, and also accuses the SI writer Selena Roberts of stalking him , a charge she denies.
(16) Unsurprisingly he is a fan of his product, which comes in more than 100 varieties including sausages, bacon, gammon steaks and chorizo, together with Swedish meatballs and German Frankfurters, specially crafted for overseas markets.
(17) He can even make a list of birds' names seem marvellous: Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
Ham
Definition:
(n.) Home.
(n.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
(n.) The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(2) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
(3) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(4) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
(5) Hamster tracheal epithelial cells were grown in primary culture for 8 days on a collagen gel substrate, in hormone-supplemented serum-free medium (Ham's F-12).
(6) Treatment of LDL with 5 microM CuSO4 for 18 h in either phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) or Ham's F-10 medium resulted in extensive oxidation as determined by the content of thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and by increased lipoprotein electronegativity.
(7) Accordingly, 80 schizophrenic inpatients were administered the HAM-D, the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) at drug-free baseline and after 4 weeks of neuroleptic treatment.
(8) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
(9) Yet the removal of two in-form goalscorers who were tormenting West Ham – first Aaron Lennon and then Lukaku – afforded the visitors the initiative.
(10) Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Read more For Sullivan and co, however, it is a nightmare they are embracing, one which has provided a shot at European football and the opportunity for Bilic to begin with an immediate feelgood run.
(11) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(12) The pressure from Fulham became relentless and in the 66th minute West Ham's defences burst.
(13) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
(14) Dimitri Payet From Marseille to West Ham United Fee £10.7m Age 28 Position Forward Such has Payet’s impact been at Upton Park that he has already been rewarded with a new contract worth up to £125,000 a week despite signing for the club only at the end of June.
(15) The equaliser came from United’s first chance of any note and it followed a bit of tomfoolery from the West Ham fans behind De Gea’s goal.
(16) The club’s increase in capacity from 35,000 at the Boleyn Ground to 60,000 at the former Olympic Stadium also makes it the biggest and most successful stadium move in Britain in the modern era.” The club’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, added: “David Sullivan, David Gold and I have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium “Reports consistently show that we have highest average capacity in the Premier League and every game in our final season at the Boleyn Ground sold out within days of going on sale.
(17) The medium was further improved by the inclusion of components not found in Ham's F12 medium or by raising the concentrations of existing low molecular weight components.
(18) Ham's F-10 medium supplemented with hFCS is routinely checked for its ability to support mouse two-cell embryo development to morulae and blastocysts.
(19) We speculated that in patients with HAM, HTLV-I-specific, MHC class II antigen restricted, activated CD4+ cells could damage the MHC class II antigen + HTLV-I-infected astrocytes, leading to the disturbance of blood-brain barrier and to the destructive lesion in the central nervous system.
(20) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.